Objective: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) following systemic and chronic hypertension is one of the main causes of acute stroke leading to disability and death. Identifying the risk factors in ICH patients can be effective in reducing bleeding and the rates of mortality and disability in these patients. This study was carried out to investigate the factors associated with ICH.Methods: A t...

In recent years vehicular travel has been increasing at a tremendous rate. The growth of traffic volumes at many intersections has neces­ sitated many changes in the control devices employed to regulate the intersecting traffic flows. The control devices most often used when the volumes are low are stop or yield signs. At high volume at-grade inter­ sections, however, a traffic signal is requir...

Today’s air traffic control (ATC) systems rely on multi-agent collaboration when managing air traffic. The introduction of new technologies into this complex environment motivates a need to assess predictively the impact of future technologies on the work practices currently present within the ATC system. This paper uses principles associated with Clark’s theory of language use (Clark, 1996) to...

Introduction: Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is believed to be increased in metastatic urothelial cancer of the bladder. However, the changes depend on the stage and grade of the upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). This study aimed to compare low-range and high-range serum CRP and haptoglobin in new cases of UTUC. Materials and methods: Blood was collected from newly diagnosed patient...

This work addresses the problem of application mapping in networks-on-chip (NoCs), having as goal to minimize the total dynamic energy consumption of complex system-on-a-chips (SoCs). It explores the importance of characterizing network traffic to predict NoC energy consumption and of evaluating the error generated when the bit transitions influence on traffic is neglected. In applications that...